Li Ke wanted to ask, but he held back. The main thing is to ask others, how other people praise themselves, this seems to be ...... Something is wrong. Although he is shameless enough, he is not so shameless, and in the past few years, his face has grown a lot.

"Well, yes, everyone will say the truth, but we still have to consider the actual situation, in fact, if everyone takes a step back, there are no unspeakable contradictions, to put it bluntly, these contradictions are very small things." Li Ke nodded with a smile.

"Let's go inside your house." Put this matter behind him for the time being, Li Ke will do his own thing first.

Entering the village of Iron Hammer, this is different from the previous village in the Hehuang Valley, although the distance between the families is relatively close, but it is also relatively speaking, in fact, each family has a large livestock pen, which can hold all kinds of livestock, so it covers a large area.

Moreover, these livestock pens have also taken into account problems such as manure, reserved roads, and the position of their captivity is relatively low.

The village smells of livestock droppings, but it's faint, because the ventilation is good, so the smell dissipates quickly.

The area of the houses in the village is not small, basically a set of main houses, two sets of partial houses, the partial houses are relatively low, there are no large windows reserved, only a small window for lighting.

"How did these side houses look like this?" Li Ke asked curiously, just ask if you don't understand, there's nothing to be embarrassed about, he is not omnipotent about these things.

"This is improved according to the local situation, the local environment is relatively dry, although there are only small windows, thickened walls, but it is not damp, but such a low side house will be cooler in summer, storing some things, such as dairy products are not easy to spoil."

"Your Highness, in fact, it looks like this side room is relatively short on the outside, but it is actually about a foot deep underneath, so it looks short, and the space inside is not small." Hammer introduced.

"Go inside and take a look." Li Ke was very interested, this is a method after the improvement of local experience.

Pushing open the door of the side room and entering the inside, Li Ke felt a lot warmer than the outside world, now is the coldest time in winter, but the temperature here is much warmer than the outside.

The hammer lit an oil lamp next to them, Li Ke looked at the environment here, the side house is also a stone foundation, and then the adobe is covered, just like the hammer said, the actual ground of the side house is a foot shorter than the ground outside, so the height of the space inside is enough.

The threshold is deliberately raised to prevent rainwater from coming in when it rains.

There is also a stove in the side room, but there is no fire kang here, and in addition to the bottom of the side room, there is a separate granary wiped out.

The four walls of the granary are about a foot away from the walls around the side house, and the bottom of the granary is also raised with a stone foundation, which is suspended in the air.

In this way, it is almost impossible for rats to enter the granary from all over the place.

The walls of this granary are not very thick, and the bottom of it is also suspended, so it is easy to find if there is a thief hole.

There is already grain in the granary, and there are a lot of tools in the side room, as well as all kinds of clay pots and urns.

Li Ke lifted the lid on a pottery urn and saw that there were some frozen meat and dairy products inside, obviously prepared for the Chinese New Year, and at this temperature, this is a natural refrigerator.

"Have you learned the way of pickling vegetables in Datang?" Li Ke remembered something and asked with a smile.

"Learned, Your Highness is here." The owner of the house hurried to a large vat next to him and removed the lid from it.

Li Ke walked over and took a look, good guy, the pickled cabbage in it was sauerkraut.

The whole Chinese cabbage is washed, pressed into a vat, and sprinkled with salt, which is still visible in the Northeast more than a thousand years later. Now Li Ke is just advancing it, of course, the reason why this can be done here can be regarded as a geographical advantage, after all, it is next to the Chaka Salt Lake.

The salt here is naturally very cheap, compared to the inside of Datang, it is naturally very cheap.

The salt used to pickle vegetables is naturally the cheapest salt they buy, but this kind of salt was also a first-class good salt in the past.

Like this, they pickled two large vats, and in addition to a large vat of pickles, which were pickled directly together with white radish, cranberries, cabbage, garlic, etc., for them, this is the most important meal in winter.

It looks like these herders have learned to pit a small portion of their own farmland and then use it to grow vegetables.

"Very good, I am relieved to see this, in this way, even in winter, you can eat some pickles, these pickles can relieve greasy, and it can be regarded as making your food richer."

"Do you grow all these vegetables yourself?" Li Ke asked with a smile and nodded.

"If you go back to Your Highness, some of them are planted by us, and our place is okay and can be planted, and there are some places where you can't grow vegetables, so they buy them directly."

"For example, Chinese cabbage is often ploughed in the Hehuang Valley after the wheat is harvested, and then the Chinese cabbage seeds are sown, and in late autumn, it is just ready for harvesting. In late autumn, there are markets in Chihai City and other places, and everyone comes from a village to buy more than a dozen truckloads of Chinese cabbage directly, or directly replace them with some dairy products, mutton, etc. ”

"So we can take what we need, and now that the cattle and sheep are our own, in fact, the cattle and sheep harvested every year are enough to eat." Hammer explained earnestly.

"Yes, but you still have to pay attention, I know that on the grassland, they are used to using the number of cattle and sheep to show their wealth, and many people like to have a lot of cattle and sheep."

"But first, we must take into account the carrying capacity of individual pastures, that is, how many cattle and sheep can be held in each person's pasture, and you must know in your heart. The second is the risk of too many cattle and sheep. ”

"You are all herdsmen, you should know better than me, there is a saying in the Central Plains, the family has a lot of money, and the hairy ones don't count. It's because livestock is too risky. ”

"If there are too many livestock, sometimes a natural disaster, or a disease between cattle and sheep, will cause a large number of cattle and sheep to die."

"So it's okay to keep a certain number of cattle and sheep, not more is better."

"The surplus cattle and sheep can be taken out and sold, and then turned into some fixed property, etc., in this regard, in the future, the imperial court will definitely introduce some tools suitable for use on the grassland, etc." Li Ke nodded and said.